Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1885 — SPLINTERS. [ARTICLE]

SPLINTERS.

Statistics show that the population of Ireland has decreased 3,200,000 in fortyfive years. , Thebe were 65,000 elephants 1ril! ed in Africa last year, and 1,875,000 pounds of ivory shipped. HuqH Blaney, a Dublin wine merchant, who has inst died at the age of 93, need to beast that he had worn the same coat for sixty years. 1 Petes the Great’s boots are exhibited as curiosities at St Petersburg.